Opening: Friday May 3, 7:30 PM
Followed by a post-show reception courtesy of

Tortillería Y Tienda De Leon’s

About the Play

Isadora finds the strength to stand up to her abusive husband Septimo when he forces the very pregnant Yolot to stay against her will. While Septimo makes plans for the baby, Isadora and Yolot devise one of their own. And as a pack of wolves closes in on the hacienda, Isadora must decide what price she’ll pay for her own freedom.

Study Guide/Guía de Estudio

Marisela Treviño Orta is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and currently a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center. She was awarded the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, the 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Drama, the 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, and is a 2019 Kendeda Finalist. Her plays have been presented at Brava Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Halcyon Theatre, the National New Play Network’s MFA Playwriting Week at The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Shotgun Players. Her produced plays include The River Bride, Heart Shaped Nebula, Ghost Limb, Braided Sorrow, and Woman on Fire.

The National New Play Network’s flagship initiative, the Rolling World Premiere (RWP) program, is shifting the new play paradigm of the one-and-one premiere to a diversified, traveling, multi-production premiere. The RWP program models a process for developing and producing new plays — one that results in stronger work overall and the momentum needed for a play to join the repertoire of frequently produced New American Works.

Each RWP supports three or more theaters that choose to mount the same new play within a 12-month period, allowing the playwright to develop a new work with multiple creative teams in multiple communities. The playwright is part of the process, working on the script and making adjustments based on what is learned from each production.

NNPN has contracted 80 RWPs in its 20 year history, with Milagro’s participation in five: Guapa by Caridad Svich, Into the Beautiful North by Karen Zacarias, The Mermaid Hour by David Valdes Greenwood, Jump by Charly Evon Simpson (co-production with Confrontation Theatre), and Wolf at the Door by Marisela Treviño Orta.